Facts
On Social Media:
Twitter:
- Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day.
- · There are currently 110 million users of Twitter’s services.
- · Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service.
- · More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone.
Facebook:
- · The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
- · People that access Facebook via mobile are twice as active than non-mobile users.
- · The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events.
- · People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
YouTube:
- · The very first video uploaded was called “Me at the Zoo”, on 23rd April 2005.
- · YouTube receives more than 2 billion viewers per day.
- · Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
- · Over half of YouTube’s users are under 20 years old.
- · You would need to live for around 1,000 years to watch all the videos currently on YouTube.
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And since I am an English literature major here are some
interesting
facts about the English language:
- · The most common letter in English is "e".
- · More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
- · The word "triskaidekaphobia" means, "fear of Friday the 13th". It also means "superstition about the number thirteen" in general.
- · The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, bēta.
- · We can find 10 words in the 7-letter word "therein" without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
- · The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.
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